In which I shamelessly plug my auctions.
This week I’ve listed four items for sale on eBay:
- An old Gameboy Advance SP (sold!)
- an eBookwise 1150 ebook reader
- a Toshiba e400 Pocket PC, and
- a Dell Axim X51 Pocket PC.
I did this because I no longer need, want, or use any of these items. And why is that?
Because my iPod Touch replaces them all! (Thanks, work! Best Xmas present from an employer EVER!)
Let’s gaze a moment at it, shall we?
Aw. Innit cute? I love my iThing.
Twitter! Surfing! Ebooks! Games! Facebook! Music! Movies! And it even has an eBay app, so I can conveniently track my auctions while I’m at the bar!
This may be the most perfect device EVAR. (Except for the part where I still have to carry a cell phone. And it’s only 8GB instead of 120GB, so I still need my other iPod for my music collection. And no free Office doc reader. But whatever.) SO deeply in lurve.
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Wow, hey, I totally sold some shit on Ebay last year, too! FIR REALS!!1!!
LOL! -m
I remember having similar thought about my XV6700 a couple years ago. But then I discovered the limitations of cramming seven devices into one device… the XV6700 did a lot of things, but it didn’t do any of them very well. I remember thinking, “A time will come when convergent technology will evolve to the point that will make me happy. But now is not the time.” Like I said, that was a couple years ago… so perhaps now is THE time, and the iPod touch is THE device I’ve been waiting for.
I don’t carry anything now but my iThing (ebooks, Internet connectivity, games) and my cell phone (calls, digital images). If I had an iPhone – if we had decent coverage around here I’d totally spring for one – I seriously think that’s all I’d carry. I still have my older iPod with my entire music collection on it, but I don’t actually take it anywhere; it spends the vast majority of its time on my bedside table.
The more I use the iThing the more I realize that my old PPCs had a ton of functions I never actually used; I just thought it was cool they were there in case I wanted to use them. -m
Oh please you are so NOT fat. Bah!
You’ve never seen me IRL! -m